DIY: Knit Gloves

Today is a little DIY day featuring those one size fits all knit gloves!!  I love these guys - I've cut the fingertips off on a few pairs to make them totally typing-friendly too!

So, I've started with an ivory pair...

...and am going to zhuzh these up a bit!!

I was inspired by the idea of making these Nutcracker/toy soldier/Buckingham Palace appropriate, so I started with some chain and jump rings and connected each end of the chain to a jump ring..

Once my chain was prepped, I picked out matching golden buttons to affix the jump rings to, and then used my jewelry pliers to close the space that was made to connect everything together.

With my buttons and chain connected, I began my hand sewing!  I took matching ivory thread, tied a knot at the end. and pushed my needle through from the underside...

...through the button.  I did this a few times to make sure my button was secure.  Once one button was down, I went to the next one.

My buttons are placed!!

After looking at my finished product, I decided that because the gloves were so little, one button/chain pair for each was enough.  I made a little adjustment after one was done.

Now I was in love with the new accessorized gloves, but someone else thought so too...

...so I gifted them to her!

These were completed for an episode of Marie Osmond's show that I shot yesterday, all about accessories!  I'll roll out the pieces I did little by little until the episode airs!!

Wednesday Giveaway!

Hello middle of the week!  So nice to see your smiling and chilly face!  I'm very excited to say that Los Angeles is hitting the 50s today!!  Whoot, whoot, I'm loving this "cold" (for LA) weather. The holidays are over, trees are on the curbside ready to be picked up, however the gifts are still being given.  I've been a busy bee working on some projects this week and will have something fun to show tomorrow.  For today, however, it's time for some goodies to end up in your hands.

I put together a little pack of turquoise goods including a miniature blue dress form (because it's awesome and you can use yours to hang jewelry from it like I do), a batch of teal rhinestones (in case you want to bedazz your dress form), a pack of sewing needles (to tie into the dress form theme), and a Maybelline eye shadow in Turquoise Glass.

To enter, leave a comment below of your favorite color.  What do you paint your walls, wear on the regular, polish your nails?  A winner will randomly be picked next Wednesday, 1/16.  As of late, I'm totally into mulberry...perfect wintery shade and the best scented candle I have burning in my apartment as we speak!  It's so yummy, I could eat it.  Except, it's wax, and well wax shouldn't be eaten.

DIY: Stencil T Shirt

I'm highly in like with today's DIY!! I have a decent amount of sporting gear - USC hats, Jets hoodies (I know, I know, they're a total disaster...), Yankees bloomers (that's right - I got them from Victoria's Secret when they were doing logo-ed sports team underthings last year), but after all my years in Los Angeles, I am without any Lakers attire.

Having a Lakers game on the agenda, I needed something color appropriate and prideful to wear to cheer on the team.  I went to my trusty stash of Hanes Ts (I bought the five pack from Target a few months back mainly for reasons like this) and got crackin!

In my mind I went the stencil route and started to do a search over the interwebs to find a font fun enough to rock on a T.

Yeah, I found that font.

It was borderline clown-ish, but felt that I needed my L and my A to look just like this.

I went to my glorious Reynolds Freezer Paper, which is one of the most genius inventions ever for crafting but I'm not sure how well it works in the actual freezer, and began to work.

The brilliance with Freezer Paper is that one side is waxed and the other side is like parchment paper.

I put my letter print out underneath a sheet of freezer paper, tracing the letter on the non-waxed side.

I trimmed my letter out...

...and then ironed the paper down!  The waxed side sticks down to your project, making it the perfect stencil!!

With my letters affixed to the T, I grabbed some Tulip Soft Fabric Paint in purple...

...and got painting!!

I coated my shirt and let the paint dry...

...before peeling away the freezer paper!

Now that my letters were down, I decided to deconstruct the neck a bit.  Two reasons I did this...ONE, I like this style.  TWO, I got paint right under the neckline.

With my neck tweaked, I had a shirt ready to cheer in!!

I even captured my Laker Girl-ness by attempting some jumps.

With my outfit done, it was time to head over to Staples Center!  We got a sneaky/awesome spot in a lot around the corner from the arena that avoided all the melee and I took my pre-game/let's go Lakers/fingers crossed, pic before heading into the arena.

Kobe said hello from the center screen...

...and so did this massive hot dog called the "Skyscraper".  Hello to you too, buddy!!

I mean how do you not take a pic with Magic??

Unforch, the Lake Show lost...  Pau Gasol turned out to be in Concussion Land and Kobe was asleep for half the game.  However, you know what was a success??  My T!!

Cue Randy Newman...